Mike Robinson topquoted:
> No offense, but I see this feature as a bad thing in so many ways
> and on so many levels my skin is crawling. :)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mike Robinson
> http://fiddy8.com/
>
>
> > I have to fight with people that using error suppression
> operator - they
> > just hide their bugs.
> > I wrote simple patch that allows set
> disable_error_suppression=On in
> > php.ini that causes engine to ignore '@' operators.
> >
> > http://strony.wp.pl/wp/wmeler/error_suppression.patch.txt
> >
While at first it seems like a good thing - I often see (even commercial)
scripts not initializing vars before use or not checking for zero divisors.
At the end one _needs_ this to prevent information/path disclosure or even
honestly deal with maybe-go-wrong things.
So better go ahead and educate mis-use(r)s.
Thomas